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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in digital education technology have provided the means for learners in nations all aver the world to take part in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this desire for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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